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A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
Every age has its characteristic, and our present one is not behind its predecessors in that respect; it is the age of systems, every system enforced by a treatise. The politician who opposes the corn-laws and advocates free trade, does so on a system, which, as soon as it begins to work, will set the civilized world to rights.
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Bold is not the act of foolishness but the attribute and inner strength to act when others will not so as to move forward not backward.
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